Christine Rosen discusses her book The Extinction of Experience, warning against the societal costs of technological overreach, constant surveillance, and the erosion of human judgment and private life.

Guest bio: Christine Rosen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a contributing editor at Commentary magazine, co-host of the Commentary podcast, and a fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. She is the author of several books, most recently The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World.

Topics covered:

• Workplace surveillance and emotion-tracking apps
• The illusion of AI emotional intelligence (e.g., “Moody” app misreading Hitler speech)
• The ethical implications of outsourcing judgment to technology
• Tech’s impact on relationships, parenting, and education
• Social media, teenage mental health, and gender differences in screen use
• Elite technologists limiting their own children’s screen exposure
• Analog resistance: rituals, habits, and reclaiming human experiences
• Gen Z workplace struggles, desocialization, and the myth of “digital natives”
• AI hype vs. human skills and personal responsibility
• Policy solutions: regulation, parental accountability, and civic engagement

Misc info related to this podcast:

• Christine has twin sons in college and shared her personal experience with raising them screen-light.
• She critiques the techno-elite's hypocrisy—profiting from tech while shielding their families from it.
• Encourages a “day without the phone” experiment to rediscover human presence and attention.
• Closing note: technology should serve human flourishing—not replace or monitor it.

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